Yeah, that Pol Pot was a bad dude. The stuff Castro did is only slighty worse than what Trump is actually proposing or would like to do. Your feelings on torture depend greatly on what side of the battery cable you are.

Edited by Rob Randall, 29 November 2016 - 03:24 PM.

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In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba.

Responsible for protecting the Lider maximo for two decades, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez was party to his secret life–because everything around Castro was hidden. From the ghost town in which guerrillas from several continents were trained, to his immense personal fortune―including a huge property portfolio, a secret paradise island, and seizure of public money―as well as his relationship with his family and his nine children from five different partners.

Sanchez's tell-all exposé reveals countless state secrets and the many sides of the Cuban monarch: genius war leader in Nicaragua and Angola, paranoid autocrat at home, master spy, Machiavellian diplomat, and accomplice to drug traffickers. This extraordinary testimony makes us re-examine everything we thought we knew about the Cuban story and Fidel Castro Ruz

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau drew worldwide criticism last weekend for his fawning praise of revolutionary strongman Fidel Castro after the former Cuban leader died Friday night. While Castro is admired by many around the world for his ideological commitments to socio-economic equality and anti-imperialism, he is in equal parts reviled for Cuba's dismal human rights record and political repression.

Although Castro is an old family friend of the Trudeaus, it's certainly weird for the leader of a US-aligned liberal democracy like Canada to heap warm praise on the Commandante without also acknowledging the brutality that accompanied his revolutionary regime. Critics were quick to point out that this is irrefutable proof that the prime minister is completely vapid on major issues like international human rights or foreign policy. (Pay no attention to the tributes to the late Saudi King Abdullah behind the curtain).

Clearly, the only things Justin knows about the world he learned from his beatnik father Pierre.

But what if there's more? Because it's 2016, some right-wing internet sleuths have furnished a second explanation as to why Justin would gush with admiration for Fidel: because El Jefe is his real dad.

It is ironic, that people complain about what Trudeau said about Castro, and yet Harper, Obama, Bush and other western powers aligned themselves with Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China, where human rights are poor, huge amounts of our products are produced in sweat shop like factories. The US for years supported Saddam Iraq for fighting Iran during the 80s (which they supported through money and weapons). But I guess we all pick and choose our enemies and friends.

It is ironic, that people complain about what Trudeau said about Castro, and yet Harper, Obama, Bush and other western powers aligned themselves with Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China, where human rights are poor, huge amounts of our products are produced in sweat shop like factories. The US for years supported Saddam Iraq for fighting Iran during the 80s (which they supported through money and weapons). But I guess we all pick and choose our enemies and friends.

Chretien, Martin and Trudeau Jr. have also aligned themselves with Saudi Arabia, South Korea and China, if by align you mean support trade deals.

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